in your own words Explain how changes to genes may result in harmful, beneficial or neutral effects to the organism.

Changes in genes, mutations, are mostly neutral to an organism and result in no benefit or harm. A piece of the code could be repeated and result in no advantageous or harmful result. A positive mutation could be the result of letters switching. A positive mutation could be camouflage. A negative mutation could be the result of some code being cut. A negative mutation could be a blindness trait.